as in to spend
to make complete use of we used up the last of the flour when we made the waffles
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Recent Examples of use up When the film was used up, the photographer mailed the camera back to the factory, where prints were made, the Kodak was reloaded with a fresh 100-exposure roll, and everything was sent back to the owner. —
Marcia Greenwood, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Mark Pestrella, director of the county Public Works and an expert on water resources, said one large data center can use up to 5 million gallons of water per day. —Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026 The site is zoned C-MX-8, which generally allows a mix of uses up to 8 stories. —Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026 On Tuesday, the county board approved several transfers intended to use up remaining funds the county has to spend by the end of the year. —Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for use up
Marcia Greenwood, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 Mark Pestrella, director of the county Public Works and an expert on water resources, said one large data center can use up to 5 million gallons of water per day. —Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026 The site is zoned C-MX-8, which generally allows a mix of uses up to 8 stories. —Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2026 On Tuesday, the county board approved several transfers intended to use up remaining funds the county has to spend by the end of the year. —Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for use up
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In 2025, the department spent about thirty million dollars paying people not to work.— Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Los Angeles spent most of Sunday slowing the tempo and trying to drag a faster, better team into the mud with them.— Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2026
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What mattered was the relationship between the people creating the content and the audience consuming it.— Jonathan Hunt, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
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Other users invited her to connect on platforms like TikTok or private chats on Discord, and Seitz thinks Audree consumed this kind of content off and on until her death.— Meena Duerson, CNN Money, 11 Apr. 2026
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Pirro described the operations as highly organized, industrial-scale fraud hubs that attract victims with fake cryptocurrency investments and romance scams, often draining life savings.— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2026
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Basins, aquifers, and other natural storage systems have been drained past recovery in our lifetimes, and one analyst warns markets aren’t taking the matter seriously enough.— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
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This is because eventually the sellers exhaust themselves while the buyers are persisting at the same price multiple times.— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2026
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When one physician is exhausted, others compensate.— Jennifer Obel, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
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Chilli, who assumes that her daughter wants to play out a happier ending, announces that the bird has survived.— Jean Garnett, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
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Determined to keep a similar scenario from playing out again, organizations everywhere are rolling out new algorithms to replace RSA and elliptic curves.— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2026
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Governments, companies and consumers have dipped deep into reserves, drawing down 250 million barrels of crude in storage since the war broke out.— CNN staff, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2026
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Spiking energy costs have pushed governments to roll out emergency measures, while central banks are drawing down foreign exchange reserves.— Anniek Bao,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
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Keep your focus inward, reduce noise, and protect your energy.— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2026
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Avoid planting garlic near peas, beans, and asparagus, as garlic may compete with these vegetables for nutrients (particularly nitrogen), inhibit their growth, and reduce their yield.— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2026
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The Los Angeles and Long Beach unified school districts, the county’s two largest districts, do not use LACOE’s portal for electronic tax documents and their employees were not affected, according to those districts.— Jason Henry, Daily News, 18 Apr. 2026
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This interactive balance board connects to a free app where your body becomes the controller, using movement to play engaging games.— Tory Johnson, ABC News, 18 Apr. 2026
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